Memfis Posted May 30, 2015 Has this happened to any of you guys? Recently some dude complained about a zipped wad I uploaded being a virus, and now I also got a virus warning from Firefox when I tried to download this wad. Is this a new thing? 0 Share this post Link to post
Superluigieth1 Posted May 30, 2015 Maybe it's because it's not like a .exe, .txt, .torrent etc. file people usually download. It happened to me once on chrome. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted May 30, 2015 No problem here, though I've reverted to an older version of Firefox (32.0.3) since recent releases are decidedly unstable on my PC, even with extensions disabled. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted May 30, 2015 I didn't know that Firefox even did virus detection. 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted May 30, 2015 If only it would only treat terry wads as viruses. 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted May 30, 2015 Enjay said:I didn't know that Firefox even did virus detection. Apparently it does now. Found some similar complaints on the internet: https://support.mozilla.org/ru/questions/1049744 https://support.mozilla.org/ru/questions/1048742 etc 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted May 30, 2015 Enjay said:I didn't know that Firefox even did virus detection.They've used Google's "Safe Browsing" data for some time to warn users about malicious sites, though I think this is more likely a case of suspect downloads being intercepted by the virus checker, then notifying the user via Firefox instead of using a pop-up. @Memfis - I don't suppose that guy named the virus that's supposedly in your wad? 0 Share this post Link to post
VGamingJunkie Posted May 30, 2015 Avast seems good about not recognizing WADs as viruses, although occasionally it counts some programs as viruses that modify the system in ways that I actually want it to. 0 Share this post Link to post
ETTiNGRiNDER Posted May 30, 2015 Are these WADs with scripting and stuff, or just run-of-the-mill vanilla type ones? 0 Share this post Link to post
Dragonsbrethren Posted May 30, 2015 Chrome keeps consistently flagging files from certain domains as unsafe. It's really annoying and seems to have nothing to do with the files themselves. 0 Share this post Link to post
ETTiNGRiNDER Posted May 30, 2015 Dragonsbrethren said:Chrome keeps consistently flagging files from certain domains as unsafe. It's really annoying and seems to have nothing to do with the files themselves. Are you referring to the "not commonly downloaded" nonsense? Because that "feature" does seem like total bullshit. 0 Share this post Link to post